RSS Whoops

Finally added a link to my RSS feed.

A Filler Post. Really.

Here are some things that I have learnt over the last few days:

• Constantly refreshing the screen will not result in your Internet order suddenly being shipped. Dark Passion Play may be shipped within 48 hours… when it’s not a weekend. The rest are due in a few weeks.
• Do not try and reason with those who think that disagreeing with them means that you have just proved their point. Especially when their “point” is that tiny text is better and that because you can read their “argument” it proves that tiny text is easier to read
• You are still allergic to cats. In fact, without Bronson being around all the time, you have lost the resistance that his constant presence provided.
• Some people actually think High School Musical is cool. Try to stop questioning their sanity.
• You no longer have to deal with the 9 o’clock pr0n runs on Sunday mornings.
• Although no job = no money. No job also = no having to look at pr0n title such as House of the Shemales and Salad-Eating Sluts
• You and your sister still do not get along.
• Chocolates thrown in the direction of head hurt.
• After discussing the reasoning behind a roleplaying character’s fears about being infertile and what that does to her, and having to deal with her being upset to the point where it invades your dreams, it is never a good idea to watch an episode of House MD in which a mother kills her baby!
• Everybody lies. Also, “Hugh Laurie is hot” needs to replace “Alan Rickman is hot” as the standard response to someone stating the obvious.

On another note, I have just discovered the side of last.fm that does more than record your music. How cool is that? Here’s mine.

Bye Bye Beautiful

I got into Nightwish not very long before the End of an Era firing of vocalist Tarja Turunen. I had not really been following the band all that much, and beyond the actual songs I knew very little about it. I associated Nightwish with the vocalist, and not with music being written by Tuomas Holopainen. So I was shocked that they were going to replace what I thought was the defining aspect of the band.

And so I was eager and excited to hear that Turunen was going to be releasing a solo album. By this time I had begun to appreciate the actual music beyond the voice, and was excited to be having a new Nightwish album and a new Tarja album in the same year.

Dark Passion Play, with its new singer Anette Olzon quickly became my most-played album ever; it started off slow and finally built up to me absolutely adoring it. Even the song Master Passion Greed, sung solely by bass player Marco Hietala became a favourite (along with his song The Islander) helping me move beyond my refusal to listen to anything other than female-fronted metal.

All was good, and My Winter Storm was on its way. I Walk Alone was already receiving playtime on my iTunes. I just couldn’t wait for My Winter Storm.

But when it finally came out, and I heard it for the first time, all I could think was Bye Bye Beautiful.

It’s bland. It’s boring. The lyrics are cheesy. And I have to force myself to listen to it. I tried to listen to it while writing this entry and only managed to get to the tenth track before switching over to Dark Passion Play. After talking to a friend about MWS, I’m now listening to Epica and am refusing to go back to MWS.

The album has its moments, but they are few and far between. Without the vocals several would make for excellent background music, but that’s not what you want to say about a person “renowned” for their vocals and their debut album. My Winter Storm lacks spark and personality, and offers nothing for someone like me - someone who is not a Tarja-devotee. Unless Tarja really steps up with her next offering, I will just have to say this:

Bye bye beautiful.

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